Originally Posted by
Phredy1
I did stage 2 of the same show as Slick Lasers. Almost the exact same problem, except before the show the LD tells me start kind "slow" for the first hour. Slow to me meant no wild cues. Then he pretty much shuts me down with only doing "punctuation point" lasers. Like I could really figure out what some crap DJ's were going to play next....
Ya, I agree that if you know the music and what's coming up next, you can do some cool effects. But when you have to use ESP to guess what's next, you are probably going to do lasers at the wrong times and look like shit. "Here comes the drop.......waiting for the drop.......wtf? The DJ just did dingle bells sounds and I did drop cues."
Live music with choreographed lasers is amazing. If you are a laserist for a DJ you have no idea what he is doing, it's better to do whatever lasers feel right and it will probably look good.
Leaving an LD in charge of when / what lasers is frustration! And no, I'm not sorry my lasers looked way better than your sharpies and blinding strobes..... What's the ratio of "dude your lasers are amazing" vrs "dude your stage lights are amazing"?
Im going to have to disagree with this. Im a DJ turned Laserist.... and it makes me very very very good at timing. I can go 6 hours without messing up one drop or break. or even getting off beat.. Not trying to toot my own horn.
My tip to you, is learn to dj. Learn the measures, learn the counts, and it WILL make you a better laserist and you will be able to predict the flow of the music.
Its why i love being a laserist so much. It makes me feel like im djing again
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